A Genturi is a plastic extension to your generator exhaust pipe. Your Genturi might be a cheap copy, and it might melt. Be careful with your Genturi; yours might not be as good as my old one. A quick search of generator exhaust on Amazon turned up multiple items that looked like mine at about […]
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We have been testing prototype Koni shock absorbers for the last two years. Yes, I mean testing. We didn’t pay for our prototype Koni shock absorbers. We are testing our new Koni shock absorbers against our previous Koni shock absorbers. Our new Koni shock absorbers are excellent. In October 2023, after returning from Alaska, Koni
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Remodeling my RV wet bay started with a leak in my black tank. After fixing the leak in my RV’s black tank, I have remodeled the entire RV wet bay. It was a long and involved process with several steps along the way. If I haven’t mentioned it before, but nearly a year later, I
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Our new RV rearview camera is a Haloview BT7 Touch. We have had it long enough; now it’s time to show it off and tell people how much we love it. Unlike many RVers, we have always had rearview cameras. It may not seem like a big deal, but our new Haloview BT7 Touch camera
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Fabric RV slide toppers are junk, and I am glad I got rid of them. Unlike most projects on my RV, installing True Topper is not a do-it-yourself project. I needed professional installation of True Toppers on my RV. This isn’t something that I could do in a campground. Picnic tables are not long enough.
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What is in your RV black tank? Thirteen years after it was made, for one time and one time only, my RV holding tanks are both clean and empty. How did we clean out our RV holding tanks? Why did we clean our RV holding tanks? What was in our RV holding tanks? Article updated
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We had an RV electrical failure, this time self-induced. My failure to turn on the electricity when we had full hookups caused the failure. Of course, that isn’t the only story about the RV electrical failure; it led to a very unexpected discovery. This discovery might be bad. I don’t want to overplay the discovery
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We had an RV tire failure while crossing West Texas. This was a near miss. It wasn’t road damage, and we didn’t have a blowout. We dodged the bullet and came up smelling like roses. The only thing we lost was some time and not much time. UPDATE: October 27, 2024. To include the rest
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Our RV slide toppers are junk and are going into the trash. I have found the perfect replacement. True Topper has eliminated the problems with fabric awning slide toppers. Fabric slide toppers on top of our slide rooms were an ugly necessity until now. I am looking forward to fixing this problem once and forever.
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Updated Article: Installed in 2021. This is our three-year review of our Swagman RV-Approved Bike Rack. We installed it on the back of our RV in the summer of 2021, and now it has been to Alaska and back. Since the initial installations, I have made a few modifications, which this article will explain. Overall,
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You don’t want a leak from your RV’s black tank. Of all the catastrophic RV problems you may encounter, a leak from your RV black tank is among the worst. If your RV doesn’t have a motor, a leak from your RV’s black tank is probably one of the top two concerns. A leak from
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Updated from original story May 23, 2021 The number one thing (actually things) that are under pressure every day, all day long, is our tires. How many RV blogs have a major multinational RV tire professional who reads and monitors the blog? We do, and now we have a major multinational tire pressure monitoring company
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Can one lithium battery replace four lead-acid batteries? In my case, yes, I did precisely that. My one lithium battery does everything that the lead batteries do. My one twenty-two-pound lithium battery replaced my previous four hundred and sixty pounds of lead-acid batteries. Originally published March 2023, Updated May 2024 I didn’t start out intending
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Is our RV falling apart? It sure seems that way. is the sky falling? I don’t think so.
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We traveled more than 500 miles with an engine problem through the most remote part of British Columbia. We loved our Alaska trip, but not everything was perfect. This story is about our engine problem and how we got it repaired. Not all sunshine and roses Having an engine problem after 100,000 miles on a
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This is a plea for help. Our RV is broken. As I write this, two of our RV slideouts won’t move. Our RV has four slides. Two of our RV slideouts won’t move. As a quick reference to anyone who might have an idea about a solution, we have a 2008 Tiffin Bus on a
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We had an RV suspension problem. Our silky smooth, even floaty RV ride was getting bouncy. I was convinced that we needed new shock absorbers. We needed professional help, professional RV suspension expert help. Henderson’s RV suspension experts helped us get the bounce out at Henderson’s Line-up. Here is the story about what caused the
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How to tow a car behind an RV. Depending on your RV and how you RV, knowing how to tow a car behind your RV is a very important decision. If you pick a trailer then you know what you are going to tow. If you choose a motorhome then the question is how to
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Red Bay Makeover: Why go to Red Bay to remodel our RV? Why would we need to remodel our RV? Red Bay is the home of Tiffin Motorhomes. The people here have more experience with Tiffin Motorhomes than anywhere on earth. While here we performed our annual maintenance, fixed a few broken parts, and gave
Troubleshooting our Air Conditioner – I didn’t want to repair the air conditioner, I didn’t want it to break. If you own an RV (or any house) it will break. Here is how I fixed our RV air conditioner that broke as we left Las Vegas (where it worked just fine). This is not the
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Micro-Air EasyStart… RV Air conditioners are hard to start. The Micro-Air EasyStart fixes that. I need EasyStart to run my AC from solar. For us, it is all part of our solar electrical remodel, which is how we’ll power our air conditioners using our batteries. Without this EasyStart, running our air conditioners from our inverter
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So how do we like our new RV? There were so many unexpected nice things about our new RV. Our new RV is actually older than the RV we sold. Our new RV is a luxury RV. Since we converted from an upgraded camper (I thought of it as a school bus) to an older
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Did we get what we wanted? We have been living in our new RV exactly one week and we have already gained some insights into what we have purchased. This post outlines what we wanted and did we get what we wanted. Of course, the timeline of the blog is compressed and all of this
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A friend said the hardest move he ever made — was across the street. We didn’t have a street to cross, still, it was plenty difficult. To set up the move we picked up our new (2008) RV and on Wednesday about 2 pm and parked it right across the patio mat – door to
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We found our new RV. This post is a follow up to our changing from one RV to another. What did we find when shopping and what made this one a winner? First, this is a 2008 Tiffin Bus. We had very knowledgable friends recommend this model. Our friends are also on board for lots
When looking at RVs that might be more suitable for our full-time adventure we, like anyone who looks at RVs, were overwhelmed by choices. All this took a little soul searching to define what it was that we really wanted. Like most RVers we have been looking at other RVs for a long time on
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This post describes how we went about selling our RV. It was shockingly easy because we had a popular RV in very good condition with low mileage. We were also in the right place at the right time and connected with a buyer that was specifically looking for our RV, the same year, model and
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We have many friends that think our RV is the Taj Mahal. (The Taj Mahal is a palace built for a princess in India.) Why would we want a different RV? We also think that our RV has the right balance between travel and camping. Why would we want a different RV? Our RV is
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What kind of RV? We are very sold on our travel style and our RV fits our travel style so the easy answer is — It works, why would we change from a Class A RV (bus) to a different kind of RV? There are other considerations but none of them really tilted the needle
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Tiffin Open Road 34 TGA Our RV is a Tiffin 34 TGA. There are lots of choices for size and type of RV for full-time travel. I think we were lucky to find one that fits our lifestyle. There is also a huge variation in price. You don’t need the most expensive or the biggest
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